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His son Ferdinand commented that the natives greatly valued the beans, which he termed almonds, "for when they were brought on board ship together with their goods, I observed that when any of these almonds fell, they all stooped to pick it up, as if an eye had fallen." From time to time they served him [Montezuma] in cups of pure gold a certain drink made from cacao.

It was said that it gave one power over women, but this I never saw.

The Mayan people, by contrast, do leave some surviving writings about cacao which confirm the identification of the drink with the gods.

Scientists have been able to confirm its presence in vessels around the world by evaluating the "chemical footprint" detectable in the microsamples of contents that remain.